Some terribly unfortunate students at the University of Michigan had to spend a semester scratching their eyes out in front of a screen, counting the millions of times Tea Party people have taken creative license with the English language and coughed up a mauled, dismembered sentence in 140 characters or less. You will probably not be surprised to learn that these are the people who do the most blabbing on Twitter, compared with Republicans and Democrats.
That’s the finding of a study out of the University of Michigan, which surveyed 460,000 tweets over a three-year period from 687 candidates running for U.S. House, Senate and governor.
Over the study period, tea party candidates tweeted an average of 901 times compared to 723 times for Republicans and 551 for Democrats.
“The conservative candidates—Republicans and Tea Party members—definitely used Twitter more visibly and showed a more coherent set of messages and topics,” said Eytan Adar, assistant professor in the School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “They also followed each other much more closely. I think it’s fair to say they were much more cohesive in a lot of ways and at the end of the day that makes for a stronger campaign.”
[Politico]
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Using the Blackberry to try to get rid of black Barry.
Cut taxes Nobama Strong Defense!
Easy.
Very funny and true, thanks!
You read enough of that garbage and it just starts to flow naturally. Please just make sure I don't get sucked in. As Nietzsche said, "If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you."
But, that seems to be implying, cuts to taxes, the Presidency of Barack Obama (voting him out/making him a one-termer), & the national defense. So, I must ask, is the Tea Party covertly advocating a combination platter Costa Rica/Switzerland future for the U.S.?
&, is it all just a ploy for cheap drugs for Limbaugh?
You know what other party was "much more cohesive in a lot of ways"?
The Yankees celebrating their 27th World Series victory?
A really good bachelor party?
Any party involving lots of boy-on-boy fun and santorum?
Tupperware?
the Lemon Party?
"Fire.Water.Burn"?
Elmer's Colonic?
Have they all attended the Weiner School of weiner pix yet?
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"a more coherent set of messages and topics,”
Too bad they're not more coherent verbally. Or mentally.
A more coherent set of messages and topicals
They're well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
About binomial theorem they're teeming with a lot o' news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
Oh, hey, kids, speaking of Koch-funded organizations, NPR's Fresh Air had a terrific interview today with The Nation's John Nichols about his expose of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Koch-funded crowd that "helps" state legislators draft legislation to regulate corporations that belong to ALEC.
Who needs Beck and his chalkboards? Here's a conspiracy that's operating right out in the open!
i heard this and all i could think was: good god ANOTHER right wing conspiracy that's actually true.
and then i wondered when i would hear it on wonkette.
yeah…but could he twat the article in 140 characters or less?
John Nichols, another Proud Wisconsin Progressive. How such things could emerge from the primordial Teatard stew of Union Grove, Wisc., is a miracle.
But, his Progressivism might explain why he had to leave. Ostracized?
Is there no law against the torture of students?
(I guess probably not, considering the number who end up in "medical trials."
It's not torture! Those are enhanced education techniques.
If there's no actual organ failure, it's not torture. Wait, is the brain technically an organ?
Nah. Enroll, pay money, torture, torture, torture, degree. That's about it.
So the conservative message is best explained in short soundbites? That's the lesson here, right?
That's racist against Herman Cain.
Fortunately, he's a bit of a nihilist, & he does not care about your japes.
It's still pretty verbose, for Duckspeak.
Incoherent & simplistic thoughts badly spelled. Twitter was made for the Teabaggers.
“They also followed each other much more closely.
or in translation in plain English : only teabaggers love fellow teabaggers
And you thought Human Centipede was just a movie.
That's why Michigan is doing so great.
Face it. Twitter was made for these folk. A writer can fuck up spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation all in the name of brevity. They can finally communicate without revealing they are untainted by any of these niceties. They don't even have to be able to count to 140, since it is done for them by the 'puter. They have found their literary home at last.
Or their ill-literary home.
Shakespeare liked to coin new words too.
Was he Lib or Con?
I don't know, but if the tards were literate and understood humor, they'd be trying to ban the Bard for all his raunchy humor.
“If” a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his butt so much, either. Falls under the “Fat Chance” category.
"Tweet" seems like the perfect term for these content-free messages. Birds are constantly broadcasting vocal bursts that ethologists tell us amount to "Bird! Bird! Bird!" Or possibly "Crow! Crow!," "Magpie! Magpie!," etc.
"I agree with what #OmahaJim said about voter fraud!" "I agree with what #PatriotBill said about small government!" "Douchebag! Douchebag! Douchebag!"
I thought birdtalk ran more to "I'll bust yer fucking head if ya get any closer to my Lady Bird!" and that sort of stuff.
That is the call of the LBJ Bird.
I used to love listening to birds sing until I realized that their songs usually were the following:
"C'mon here bitch…I got your red breast right here"
"My nest my bitch motherfucker! Don't make me peck you!"
"Warning warning warning! Predator!"
"Don't let the 'pecker' thing fool you baby"
Looking at these, I realize that they are all pretty much GOP talking points. (In this case, the predator is "big government".
Thank you! Being here with you makes it the best.
Let's enjoy; nothing lasts forever.
Lies are easier to repeat when they're only 140 characters.
Not true. According to Twain (Mark, not Shania) lies have higher velocity. A quantum lie (aka a tweet) can reach its destination before being sent. As when Repubicans all say "Washington has a spending problem" at the exact same time. However, faster than lie travel is impossible or I'd be younger, thinner and smarter.
The conservative candidates—Republicans and Tea Party members—definitely used Twitter more visibly and showed a more coherent set of messages and topics
Well, of course they did: that's easy enough when all you are doing is saying no to:
1. Obama
2. Democrats
3. Common sense
And they all go something like: http://viletweets.com/
"you Jewish, dick sucking, n***er" (Obama reference)
The person who sent this tweet from "vile tweets" has no redeeming qualities and cannot be saved. I'm stunned that they had a job long enough to get a computer. Their life will be nothing but grief and they deserve every second of it.
On the *plus* side, they no longer have a Twitter account, so perhaps their job and computer have gone, together with their internet access. One hopes.
I searched for that cretin's name and his account did turn up. Very strange stream of conscious tweets. He's probably just typing to the 'friend' in his mind, but he's obsessed with UPC codes, DVDs, yachts and Jessica Alba.
Hah. Maybe the link is broken. I should've gone the extra mile, but was too chicken to expose myself to more of that 24/7 glitter-besprinkled h8,h8,h8.
After reading that, I just feel a desperate *need* to shower.
I wish I could say that's the worst thing I've seen in my life, but I'm pretty sure it's not… still, I am floored.
Thanks – that was hilarious.
I don't know if I enjoyed "The face of liberal hate" or the nut that didn't even know how to spell the name of his hero Bush (BUSCH!) correctly.
And I don't think I've seen the n-word spewed so many times on a single page that is not a white supremacist site. Just, wow.
he probably knows more about Busch than Bush.
Tangential—I was in St Louis last month and went to a ballgame at Busch Stadium. I was really looking forward to having a coupla nice cold Busch beers, an Anheuser product that I can actually stomach on occasion. All they sold was Budweiser, Bud Light, and Bud Select. Why don't you fuckers call it fucking Budweiser Stadium? I was pretty disappointed. If I lived in Simpsons world, I'd definitely be mounting a lawsuit with Lionel Hutz.
likewise, Jack Murphy stadium only sold Tecate as far as i remember.
no Jack.
no Murphy's Oil.
a Jack and Murphy's is about the only way i'd enjoy baseball.
Is it really any surprise that teabagger theories and policy arguments are easily conveyed in 140 characters or less? The fact that there are a grand total of 19 such thoughts, endlessly recycled among people with very short attention spans, is also no surprise. Also, in a Twit, your factoids just have to go without citations. Twitter and teabaggers are a match made in heaven. (#brainless)
Dems need to send entire paragraphs, and documents with preambles, logical arguments, and conclusions, so it's email and pdfs for those nerds. Twitter is, however, good for sending the occasional dick-twit to some random chick you don't really know.
I was kind of wondering how much the Dem average was inflated by Antknees dix pix.
Twitter: All the depth of a bumper sticker, but none of the commitment.
Completely ot: can we go ahead and declare HTC a teabagger product as well? That way I can justifiably drop this goddamn thing in a fucking ditch.
A brief rant, if I may – why the fuck does this goddamn thing autocorrect everything I type into Spanish? Why the fuck does it pocket dial my boss from its perch on my nightstand at 3 in the morning with the screen locked? Why the fuck does everyone love this goddamn android bullshit when windows98 is a superior OS?
Oh, and twitter was stupid before idiots started using it. Why should it be any different now?
You are all the most vile yadda yadda yadda, no one has lost any.
My Android is working well. Had a few problems when I used the wrong joint lube, but he's out mowing the lawn now.
"More coherent set of messages"
What I want to know is how much fucking bath salts do you have to smoke to make a Teabagger appear to be coherent????
I was listening to what sounded like a coherant teabagger statement but realized I had my hearing aides in the wrong ears. Mine!
The appeal is that of the sixth-grader faced with his/her first "composition" assignment. MUST HAVE: TOPIC SENTENCE. It either grows with effort, the flow of putting thoughts to paper [pixels], or it remains a struggle. For the latter scenario, coming up with the title becomes the first reflex, whereas more seasoned authors save this for last. At least the grade-school student, though, coughs up the title and goes on to elaborate on the topic however belabored, because those are the requirements.
But the dunderhead feeding its tweet-fixes sticks with "My Opinion in 140 Characters Or Less" and leaves it at that. Oh, and there is plenty of evidence that this fancy is ballooning faster than Dick Costolo's bank account.
"I stole the teevee!"
#tcot
(sorry, that quote never gets old)..
Makes sense when all of your policy ideas fit into 140 characters or less.
Herman Cain approves of this and would like to change his previous 3-pages requirements for all bills to be tweet it or GTFO.
THIS MEANS SOMETHING!
I know engineering school is tough but this is just plain inhumane.
My congressman tweets. Last one I bothered reading lamented how Clarence Clemons 'was the sole of the E-Street Band and will be missed.'
He's getting my vote.
Teabaggers tweet more often, and their tweets are longer, full of weird contractions, and they often extend one message into 2 or 3 Tweets.
So, no, they don't understand how Twitter works either.
Hey Professor, where the teabaggers using Twitter or were they "much more cohesive in a lot of ways"? Because using Twitter and being cohesive are mutually exclusive.
Twitter is the thing with all the Tweets
You and your friends stay in touch
But never meet
Ass Möde.
I encourage the Tweat Baggers, primarily because I don't use Twitter.
“The conservative candidates—Republicans and Tea Party members—definitely used Twitter more visibly and showed a more coherent set of messages and topics,” said Eytan Adar, assistant professor in the School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, before he began laughing uncontrollably and snorted milk out his nose. "I mean… I mean… if you take into account that they're writing in their own made up language," he managed to get out between laughs.
There, fixed it for ya.
The mere mention of the Tea Party at this point, their gross stupidity, their influence on the culture, photographs of them, makes me want to drink myself not just unconscious, but perhaps to death.
Coherent? I don't fucking think so…
#FF #tcot #GOP #gaymarriage #glitterbomb @secupp @glennbeck @SarahPalinUSA @MarcusBachmann @limbaugh
Fuck Twitter.
just because "twit" is in the name???
Hey… imagine… Twits Tweet… hmmm…
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